Dumont, Ia. -- Miss Hazel Freese, daughter of Mrs. Anna Freese, has joined the WAACs and will leave here Tuesday to begin her basic training at Fort Des Moines. She was graduated from Dumont High school in 1939 and early this winter completed as nurse's aide course at the University of Iowa hospital and since has been employed at the Lutheran hospital in Hampton. She has four brothers in the service, Pvt. George Freese in north Africa, Pvt. Joe Freese in New Guinea; Tech Sgt. Ben E. Freese, overseas and Pvt. William Freese in a camp in Colorado.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - March 22, 1943 (photo included)
Dumont -- Wac Cpl. Hazel Freese left Monday evening for her camp at Tuscon, Ariz., following a seven day furlough with her mother, Mrs. Anna Freese, and other relatives. Corporal Freese is with the signal and communications corps.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - July 11, 1944
Corporal Hazel Freese, Wac, daughter of Mrs. Anna Freese of Dumont, has recently been discharged at Fort Des Moines, and is now home. Hazel received her basic training at Des Moines and from there was sent to Arizona. She was connected with the station base hospital and then being transferred to communications as a teletype operator at Bakersfield, California. She has served two years and nine months with the Wacs.
Source: The Greene Recorder, December 5, 1945
